The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 15H.G. Allen, 1888 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... district of its own name in the Portuguese province of Mozambique in south - eastern Africa , is situated on Delagoa Bay , at the mouth of the Lorenzo Marques or English River , in 25 ° 58 ' S. lat . and 32 ° 30 ′ E. long . At the time ...
... district of its own name in the Portuguese province of Mozambique in south - eastern Africa , is situated on Delagoa Bay , at the mouth of the Lorenzo Marques or English River , in 25 ° 58 ' S. lat . and 32 ° 30 ′ E. long . At the time ...
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... district of Sodom . When Jehovah was about to destroy Sodom and the other cities of the plain two divine messengers appeared , spent the night in Lot's house , and next morning led Lot , his wife , and his two unmarried daughters out of ...
... district of Sodom . When Jehovah was about to destroy Sodom and the other cities of the plain two divine messengers appeared , spent the night in Lot's house , and next morning led Lot , his wife , and his two unmarried daughters out of ...
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... districts , in distinction from southern English . Its customary law , with additions prior to the war of in- dependence of Norman feudal institutions from England , is the basis ... district , and says that a caravan route led LOT - LOT 11.
... districts , in distinction from southern English . Its customary law , with additions prior to the war of in- dependence of Norman feudal institutions from England , is the basis ... district , and says that a caravan route led LOT - LOT 11.
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... districts , in each of which there is a district court . The number of districts in the State cannot by law be less than twelve nor more than twenty . The district judges are elected by the voters of the district , and hold judge is ...
... districts , in each of which there is a district court . The number of districts in the State cannot by law be less than twelve nor more than twenty . The district judges are elected by the voters of the district , and hold judge is ...
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... districts . The following table , compiled from the returns of wealth , debt , and taxation of the tenth United States ... district fell into the hands of John Law , the originator of the famous " ' Mississippi scheme . " Desiring to ...
... districts . The following table , compiled from the returns of wealth , debt , and taxation of the tenth United States ... district fell into the hands of John Law , the originator of the famous " ' Mississippi scheme . " Desiring to ...
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Page 205 - the devil teacheth how to make pictures of wax or clay, that, by roasting thereof, the persons that they bear the name of may be continually melted, or dried away by continual sickness.
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Page 20 - Mexico, with six maps comprehending the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, the whole of West Florida, and part of East Florida.
Page 183 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 127 - I have gone back to Greek literature with a passion quite astonishing to myself. I have never felt anything like it. I was enraptured with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I had never known before what intellectual enjoyment was.
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Page 128 - I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some great historical work which may be at once the business and the amusement of my life...
Page 128 - ... was one which had to be thought out as he went along, or brightening from the forehead downwards when a burst of humor was coming, his massive features and honest glance suited well with the manly sagacious sentiments which he set forth in his sonorous voice and in his racy and intelligible language. To get at his meaning people had never the need to think twice, and they certainly had seldom the time.
Page 324 - I was much struck with this, when in the island of Bali I saw Chinese traders who had adopted the costume of that country, and who could then hardly be distinguished from Malays ; and, on the other hand, I have seen natives of Java who, as far as physiognomy was concerned, would pass very well for Chinese.
Page 149 - Percussina, a hamlet of San Casciano, Machiavelli completed the Principe before the end of 1513. This famous book is an analysis of the methods whereby an ambitious man may rise to sovereign power. It appears to have grown out of another scarcely less celebrated work, upon which Machiavelli had been engaged before he took the Principe in hand, and which he did not finish until some time afterwards. This second treatise is the Discorsi sopra la prima deçà di Tito Livio.